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2021 Has to Be the Beginning of the End for Big Oil
It seems like everyone had a pretty rough 2021, and no wonder — we’ve had to contend with an ongoing global pandemic, crumbling political infrastructure, climate disasters with no end, and all of Joe Manchin’s ongoing bullshit. But there’s one thing that put a little bit of a spring in my step, and that’s that…
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Self-Declared ‘Vaccine Police’ Says He’ll ‘Lawfully’ Arrest Louisiana Governor
The conspiracy theorist behind an anti-vaxx group called the “Vaccine Police” has promised to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards for refusing to halt vaccinations of children against the coronavirus.
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The 11 Coolest Archaeological Finds of 2021
In 2021, archaeologists learned more about a famous bog body known as the Tollund Man, daily life in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius’s fateful eruption, some of the oldest human handprints on Earth, and much more. Enjoy these 11 postcards from humanity’s ancient past.
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Curious as to How Researchers Identify Omicron and Other COVID-19 Variants?
How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing. Researchers sequence DNA to determine the order of the four chemical building blocks, or nucleotides, that make it up: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. The millions to billions of these building blocks paired up together…